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Check out this helpful ‘explainer’ piece by Chester Soria (’12), who now works part-time at Gotham Gazette. He recently helped out some of our current students who were covering a mayoral debate for Errol Louis’ political reporting class.
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Walter Smith-Randolph warmed our hearts in January by stopping by the school before heading to Flint, MI, where he has a new job as a TV reporter and fill-in anchor at NBC25 News. Anyone know which is colder, Scranton or Flint? Congrats, Walter!
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Brigid Bergin, an intrepid Urban Reporting student in our young school’s first class, has been rising through the ranks at WNYC since she began interning there before graduating. Her latest move, described in a glowing press release by Jim Schachter, the radio station’s vp for News, is excerpted below:
“Brigid Bergin could be running a newsroom just about anywhere. I
wouldn’t be the first to predict that she will someday. She’s been our
morning producer and our breaking news producer, capacities in which she
pretty much did run this newsroom. During Sandy and its immediate
aftermath, she was the light post to which we all lashed ourselves, a
beacon of clarity whose signals kept our report running straight under
the most difficult circumstances.
But Brigid has not been content simply with being really good at what
she’s already really good at. She’s wanted to develop her reporting
chops, to become a story teller and an investigator. And the work she’s
done in a temporary reporting gig this year – did you hear her reporting
for NPR this week from Newtown? – has shown that she’s good at this
reporting thing, as well.
So Brigid now, formally, joins the ranks of WNYC’s reporters. Her
assignment is to cover City Hall and the provision of government
services, reporting to Andrea. My advice to City Hall: watch out.”